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New sculptures and installations that critically examine the formal, social and linguistic roles of live modelsOver the past three decades, Iranian-born, German-based artist Nairy Baghramian (born 1971) has created sculptures and installations that upend expected modes of presentation and challenge the architectural, social, political and historical contexts that inform them.The new works featured in this publication explore the provisional bo...

The Value of Empathy explores various approaches to understanding empathy and investigates its moral and practical role.

This book brings together philosophers, sociologist and policy experts to discuss the nature, scope and limitations of expert advice in policy decisions. The chapters collected here address some of the most fundamental questions in the debate on the role of experts.

On the levels of both form and content, "Breath Holding Spell" unmistakably harks back to Bruce Nauman's 1970 artist's book LA AIR, whose eight monochrome pages present photographs of the atmosphere, illustrating the widely varying hues of the air over L.A. It inspired this artist's book by Nairy Baghramian, which features variations on a single photographic motif: no more than a cropped detail of a tightly packed standing crowd of people is v...

Trust is an essential component of social life and yet political polarization and social tensions can easily lead to its erosion. The articles collected in this volume throw a new light on the fundamentals of trust and trustworthiness and thus help us understand better the conditions and the limits of trust. This book was originally published as

This book explores the mutual intellectual influences, convergences, and differences between three groundbreaking philosophical traditions: analytic philosophy, phenomenology, and pragmatism.

Relativism is essential reading for students of philosophy as well as those in related disciplines where relativism is studied, such as anthropology, sociology and politics.

Relativism is essential reading for students of philosophy as well as those in related disciplines where relativism is studied, such as anthropology, sociology and politics.

Hilary Putnam is one of the world's leading philosophers. His work has made enormous contributions to a rich variety of philosophical topics and debates. 'Reading Putnam' is an outstanding overview and assessment of his thought by a team of international contributors, and includes replies by Putnam himself.

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@text: Donald Davidson (1917-2003) was one of the most prominent and influential philosophers of the second half of twentieth century. This book brings together articles by preeminent philosophers working language and mind to offer new insights on Davidson¿s key ideas. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Philosophical Studies.

This book is a study of relativism as a dominant intellectual preoccupation of our time. Relativism asks how we are to find a way out of intractable differences of perspectives and disagreements in various domains. Standards of truth, rationality, and ethical right and wrong vary greatly and there are no universal criteria for adjudicating between them. In considering this problem, relativism suggests that what is true or right can only be det...

Cultural, moral and religious diversity is a pervasive feature of modern life, yet has only recently become the focus of intellectual debate. Pluralism is the first book to tackle philosophical pluralism and link pluralist themes in philosophy to politics. A range of essays investigates the philosophical sources of pluralism, the value of pluralism and liberalism, and difference in pluralism, including writings on women and the public-private ...

Pluralism: The Philosophy and Politics of Diversity" is the first volume to open the window on philosophical pluralism and link pluralist themes in philosophy and politics. It advances recent debates on political pluralism in a range of essays that challenge or defend the association of liberalism and pluralism. The volume is divided into three parts: an investigation of the philosophical sources of pluralism, including an essay on William Jam...

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@text: Donald Davidson (1917-2003) was one of the most prominent and influential philosophers of the second half of twentieth century. This book brings together articles by preeminent philosophers working language and mind to offer new insights on Davidson¿s key ideas. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Philosophical Studies.

Modern Philosophy of Language brings together the most significant writings on language in twentieth-century philosophy -- from the work of Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, and the logical positivists to the contemporary contributions of W.V.O. Quine, Noam Chomsky, and Michael Dummett. The articles collected here are bench-marks in the development of various strands in the modern analytic philosophy of language.